How Drow Ranger and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Drow Ranger and Shadow Demon win 42.23% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,023 matches.
Losing control of the lane is the main problem here. Drow Ranger needs a support who can secure her farm by trading hits and threatening kills. Shadow Demon offers very little lane presence; he can’t effectively harass opponents or create the pressure Drow needs for a strong start. His kit is reactive, usually saving Drow with Disruption after she's been jumped. This duo will almost always get pushed under their tower, bleeding gold and experience to the enemy offlaner from the very beginning.
This early deficit snowballs quickly. A delayed start for Drow Ranger means the team can’t play around her Marksmanship timing to pressure objectives. Instead, she’s forced into the jungle to recover, ceding map control and making it harder for Shadow Demon to establish vision. The game plan shifts from taking towers to desperately defending them. By the time Drow is ready to fight, the enemy has often built up a lead that is too large for a single save to overcome, forcing the team to play from behind.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate in recent ranked matches, split by average match rank. Ranks with too few recent matches are omitted. These rows use the last 30 days of quality-filtered ranked matches, all patches in that span combined — a wider window than the patch-scoped count above, so the per-rank match totals can exceed it.
| Rank | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 40.82% | 245 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.67% | 614 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.17% | 532 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.00% | 180 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 42.23% | ▼ -4.0pp | 4,023 |
| 7.41d | 46.22% | ▼ -0.9pp | 53,738 |
| 7.41c | 47.12% | ▲ +0.8pp | 21,294 |
| 7.41b | 46.28% | — | 20,490 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.